Fwd: .info root servers responding in authority section, not answer section?

[Danny Mayer]

It works for me:

H:\bind9bin>dig ns declude.info

; <<>> DiG 9.2.0rc7 <<>> ns declude.info
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;declude.info.                  IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
declude.info.           63880   IN      NS      udns1.ultradns.net.
declude.info.           63880   IN      NS      udns2.ultradns.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
udns1.ultradns.net.     165222  IN      A       204.69.234.1
udns2.ultradns.net.     165222  IN      A       204.74.101.1

;; Query time: 330 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Oct 20 01:08:09 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 114


         Danny

At 12:37 AM 10/20/01, Richard Johnsson wrote:
>Regardless of which behavior is correct, my BIND 9.2.0rc7 gives SERVFAIL
>when asked for NS records of declude.info. To me that says there's a bug in
>BIND 9.2.0rc7 or the Nominum TLD servers or the declude.info data.
>
>napa 37 #dig ns declude.info
>
>; <<>> DiG 9.2.0rc7 <<>> ns declude.info
>;; global options:  printcmd
>;; Got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 34440
>;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
>;; QUESTION SECTION:
>;declude.info.                  IN      NS
>
>;; Query time: 75 msec
>;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
>;; WHEN: Fri Oct 19 20:49:37 2001
>;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 30